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Deux cellules neuronales (CAD) en connexion par un nanotube TNT © Institut Pasteur/Karine Gousset et Chiara Zurzolo,
News
2026.05.26
Research
Parkinson’s and related conditions: how damaged mitochondria trigger nanotube communication in the brain
  The team led by Chiara Zurzolo in the Membrane Traffic and Pathogenesis Unit at the Institut Pasteur recently published a study in Nature Communications that...
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Ixodes ricinus nymphe
News
2026.05.26
Three questions about ticks: How many species are there? What pathogens do they spread? What is the health risk?
  #1- How many species of ticks are there in the world, and how many in France? Ticks are arachnids (like spiders or scorpions) belonging to the subclass Acari...
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bacteriophage escherichia coli - Institut Pasteur
News
2026.05.07
Research
Bacteria Have Millions of Secret Weapons Against Viruses
  Much like humans who can get sick when infected by a virus, bacteria have pathogenic challenges of their own-phages. These are viruses which infect and...
Bacteriaimmunityphages
Expérience en laboratoire
News
2026.04.24
Vaccins
A guide to the different types of vaccine
  Live attenuated vaccines Principle: a weakened or very similar version of the virus or bacteria is used. This weakened microbe is no longer capable of...
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Reconstitution 3D d'une colonie de choanoflagellés Choanoeca flexa imagée par FIB-SEM (Focused Ion Beam - Scanning Electron Microscopy). Ici la colonie est montrée en conformation “flagelles-dedans”.
News
2026.03.25
Evolutionary biology: what an aquatic microorganism can tell us about our distant origins
  Try this mental exercise for a moment: imagine what our world looked like 1.2 billion years ago. At that time, all land masses formed a single continent, the...
Coupe transversale d'un Ileum-organoid-on-chip humain infecté par le SARS-CoV-2 pendant 48 heures.
News
2026.03.12
Epidemiological news
COVID-19: a new strategy under investigation to tackle all variants
  Since its emergence, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not stopped evolving. Each new variant accumulates mutations in its spike protein, the 'key' enabling it to...
COVID-19
Vidéo
2026.02.20
Gender immunity
Women and men do not have the same immunity. Molly Ingersoll, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, explains why. In women, the immune response is faster and...
Plaques de Peyer vues du dessus. Il s'agit d'une population de lymphocytes qui "veillent "sur l'intestin
Report
2026.03.05
immunité
How understanding the immune system can help us age better
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Molly Ingersollportrait photo devant l'Institut Pasteur de Paris
Portrait
2026.02.09
Molly Ingersoll: advocating for women's health and women's rights
From science fiction to the Institut Pasteur in Paris At the age of twelve, Molly came across a science fiction novel in which a female scientist was cloned by...
Journée internationale des droits des femmesSanté des femmes
Virus de l'hépatite B (VHB) en microscopie électronique. L'hépatite B chronique peut être à l'origine de cancer du foie et de cirrhose. Virus enveloppé à ADN. Particules de Dane complètes, sphérules de 20 nanomètres de diamètre, et tubules ou filaments de
News
2026.02.12
Hepatitis
Hepatitis B: two major breakthroughs raise hopes of eradicating chronic illness
  Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes more than a million deaths each year, largely because of complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer. There...
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